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• Another adverse factor was the way the Russians received continual reinforcements from their back areas, as they fell back. It seemed to us that as soon as one force was wiped out, the path was blocked by the arrival of a fresh force.

  Gerd von Rundstedt

  Eyebrows, Way, Path

  "The Other Side of the Hill". Book by Basil Henry Liddell Hart, p. 184, 1948.

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• I believe in giving rewards and positive reinforcement for a job well done, but can we raise ourselves a little higher than the dogs and give rewards that have longer-term benefits? How can a poor food choice be a true reward anyway?

  Jill Johnson

  Motivational, Dog, Jobs

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• I wrote for twelve years and collected 250 rejection slips before getting any fiction published, so I guess outside reinforcement isn't all that important to me.

  Lisa Alther

  Writing, Years, Rejection

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• It is very true that I have said that I considered Napoleon's presence in the field equal to forty thousand men in the balance. This is a very loose way of talking; but the idea is a very different one from that of his presence at a battle being equal to a reinforcement of forty thousand men.

  Duke of Wellington

  Men, Talking, Ideas

  Notes for September 18, 1836. "Notes of Conversations with the Duke of Wellington, 1831-1851". Book by Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope, 1886.

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• The heavy casualties, the constant retreat, the shortage of food and munitions, the difficulty of receiving reinforcements... all this had a very bad effect on morale. Many longed to get across the Volga, to escape the hell of Stalingrad.

  Vasily Chuikov

  Receiving, Retreat, Hell

  "Ivan's War: Life and Death in the Red Army". Book by Catherine Merridale, p. 174, 2007.

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• Should the enemy strengthen his van, he will weaken his rear; should he strengthen his rear, he will weaken his van; should he strengthen his left, he will weaken his right; should he strengthen his right, he will weaken his left. If he sends reinforcements everywhere, he will everywhere be weak.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, Military, War

  Sun Tzu, Julius Caesar, Einhard, Niccolò Machiavelli, Carl von Clausewitz (2016). “Strategy Six Pack”, p.16, Lulu.com

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• A proud woman who has learned to submit carries all her pride to the reinforcement of her submission, and looks down with severe superiority on all feminine assumption as unbecoming.

  George Eliot

  Pride, Looks, Proud

  George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.150, ShandonPress

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• I want to own a network. I want to own a network where you can turn it on with your family all day long and get positive reinforcement.

  Tyler Perry

  Long, Want, Turns

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• Our God is Jehovah of hosts, who can summon unexpected reinforcements at any moment to aid His people. Believe that He is there between you and your difficulty, and what baffles you will flee before Him, as clouds before the gale.

  F.B. Meyer

  Believe, Clouds, People

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• I think the negative reinforcement really helped me in my very beginnings.

  David Copperfield

  Thinking, Negative

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Of course children benefit from positive feedback. But praise and rewards are not the only methods of reinforcement. More emphasisshould be place on appreciation--reinforcement related explicitly and directly to the content of the child's interest and efforts.

  Lilian Katz

  Appreciation, Children, Effort

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• meditation is not supposed to be the fabrication or the reinforcement of some particular state, but simply the cultivation of the awareness of whatever is arising in the mind.

  Thrangu Rinpoche

  Meditation, Mind, Awareness

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• I think it's always important to give immediate positive reinforcement.

  Alfonso Cuaron

  Thinking, Giving, Important

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• We have seen that in certain respects operant reinforcement resembles the natural selection of evolutionary theory. Just as genetic characteristics which arise as mutations are selected or discarded by their consequences, so novel forms of behavior are selected or discarded through reinforcement.

  B. F. Skinner

  Mutation, Behavior, Natural

  B.F Skinner (1965). “Science And Human Behavior”, p.430, Simon and Schuster

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• For black America needs a politics whose first mission isn't the reinforcement of the idea of black America; and a discourse of race that isn't centrally concerned with preserving the idea of race and racial unanimity. We need something we don't yet have: a way of speaking about black poverty that doesn't falsify the reality of black advancement; a way of speaking about black advancement that doesn't distort the enduring realities of black poverty.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Reality, Race, Ideas

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• Allah set Hajj for the consolidation and reinforcement of the religion.

  Fatima bint Muhammad

  Hajj, Consolidation

  "Ayan al-Shī'ah" by al-Sayyid Muhsin al-Amin, vol.1, p. 316,

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• If I announce the armistice and the Americans don't send sufficient reinforcements and don't land near Rome, the Germans will seize the city and put in a puppet fascist government.

  Pietro Badoglio

  Government, Rome, Land

  "A Special Mission" by Dan Kurzman, (p. 9), 2007.

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• Sam gave Captain Suicide a droll stare. "How did you die again? Oh wait, I know this. 'I can take 'em. I don't need to wait for reinforcements. I can do it myself.' How'd that work out for you again?

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Suicide, Work Out, Waiting

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “No Mercy”, p.327, Macmillan

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• Mom always said people worried too much about their children. Suffering when you're young is good for you, she said. It immunized your body and your soul, and that was why she ignored us kids when we cried. Fussing over children who cry only encouraged them, she told us. That's positive reinforcement for negative behavior.

  Jeannette Walls

  Mom, Children, Kids

  Jeannette Walls (2006). “The Glass Castle: A Memoir”, p.28, Simon and Schuster

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• Just sit tight. Reinforcements should be here soon. Hopefully nothing happens before-" Lightning crackled overhead. The wind picked up with a vengeance. Worksheets flew into the Grand Canyon, and the entire bridge shuddered. Kids screamed, stumbling and grabbing the rails. "I had to say something," Hedge grumbled. He bellowed into his megaphone: "Everyone inside! The cow says moo! Off the skywalk!" "I thought you said this thing was stable!" Jason shouted over the wind. "Under normal circumstances," Hedge agreed, "which these aren't.

  Rick Riordan

  Kids, Wind, Bridges

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• What is love except another name for the use of positive reinforcement? Or vice versa.

  B. F. Skinner

  Names, What Is Love, Vices

  B. F. Skinner (1974). “Walden Two”, p.282, Hackett Publishing

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• Cats make one of the most satisfying sounds in the world: they purr. [...] Almost all cats make us feel good about ourselves because they let us know they feel good about us, about themselves, and about our relationship with them. A purring cat is a form of high praise, like a gold star on a test paper. It is a reinforcement of soemthing we would all like to believe about ourselves -- that we are nice.

  Roger Caras

  Stars, Nice, Believe

  Roger A. Caras (1987). “A celebration of cats”, Fireside

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• Wow, Johnny. I send you out for reinforcements and you come back with an old man, a nerd and this little hobbit guy. Great job.

  Pittacus Lore

  Jobs, Men, Guy

  Pittacus Lore (2013). “The Fall of Five: Lorien Legacies”, p.97, Penguin UK

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• Good cheer is a state of mind or mood that promotes happiness or joy... With God’s help, good cheer permits us to rise above the depressing present or difficult circumstances. It is a process of positive reassurance and reinforcement. It is sunshine when clouds block the light.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Depressing, Cheer, Block

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• Making promises to myself, in my personal writing practice, has been important to me all my life. In practical application it is so much easier for me to make promises to others, and keep them, than it is to make promises to myself. "Why is that?" and the answer I gave myself is that in making promises to others I create a model of accountability and reinforcement. I duplicate that in my writing and have grown increasingly better at making and keeping promises to myself.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Writing, Practice, Keeping Promises

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